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William Camden
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Medulin wrote:
I don't know why people think they will not be able to understand a person from Bavaria, BW or Austria. More often than not, it's just a different accent, some different words (like benützen instead of benutzen), and some different grammar (Ich habe gehabt instead of Ich hatte, Ich habe gehen müssen instead of Ich musste gehen and so on)...The situation is not comparable to German-speaking Switzerland at all. Most young people in towns can't speak dialect anymore at all, it's always Hochdeutch with regional flavor. In formal situations, many people can ''code switch'' to Hochdeutch comparable to the one from Hannover (some people use the French R in formal situations while they use the rolled R in informal ones),
Here is an example of Austrian German:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7nJLWyS-2c
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In the Youtube example given, the speaker briefly uses some Slovene to say "good evening" in that language, or something similar. Otherwise, it is fairly typical Austrian German.
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